What is it about?
This paper is about whether in fact it is possible to measure the effect of government policies to reform the governance of ports. The paper considers how such impact may or may not be measurable in terms of different understandings and perspectives of key terms involved, aspects of time and geography, and also issues of methods and the context in which the reform takes place. Key considerations are outlined to help researchers and governments aim to better measure the impact of any such reform.
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Why is it important?
This paper is important because it is often automatically assumed that the impact of a policy will occur. However, the paper questions this automatic assumption, and makes suggestions for how to better measure and assess whether indeed a reform and policy is indeed having an impact.
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It was fascinating to study this from angles of language, philosophy and method, and to generate what I would argue are key questions that should be set up and built into the initiation of any port governance reform policy in order to both make it more effective, and to measure exactly how effective it is.
Dr Nick Pilcher
Edinburgh Napier University
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This page is a summary of: Can we really measure the impact of port governance reform?, Maritime Policy & Management, September 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2017.1380318.
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